Phase change photonics

Antony将致力于结合我们在纳米制造和光子学方面的专业知识的领域。具体地说，他将致力于开发一种与微流体相结合的光子平台，并开发如何在等离子体增强型集成光子设备中检测粒子和生物分子的技术。这将涉及先进的设计和建模技术、先进的纳米制造技术和建立实验以及分析这些实验。这是一个令人兴奋的高风险和高回报的新研究领域，它将在光子学、电子学和微流体学的交叉领域发挥作用。这样的集成平台已经被谈论了很多年，但到目前为止还没有让它们发挥作用的技术诀窍和制造技术。随着光子学的快速发展，以及微流控技术与电子学的集成，这为利用研究小组在这些领域的重大技术诀窍将微流控与片上光子学集成提供了新的机会。该项目的目的还将是对它们在医疗诊断方面的潜力进行一些早期研究，如果一切按计划进行，可能会涉及与生物化学和/或医学方面的同事合作。集成光子学和集成微流控技术的使用是一个新兴领域，需要开发许多新的专业知识和技术，然后才能评估其潜力，这个由学生主导的项目将为许多这些新技术做好准备，以创建一个早期阶段的诀窍和知识库，了解什么是可行的，什么是无效的，以及了解事物如何以及为什么工作或不工作。主要领域将是制造未来和医疗保健技术，但该项目也将与ICT和物理科学合作。鉴于其跨学科性质，从其定义来看，很难归类为一个主要领域，这是本研究项目新颖性的一个关键方面。我们展望了这些技术和方法中的几种：EHD打印、先进原子力显微镜、光子芯片设计、先进纳米光刻技术、光学表征技术、微流体技术、转移印刷、微型模塑技术、分析化学、工艺开发以及数据分析、时域数据收集、原位光谱分析、光纤耦合激光、荧光显微镜和电子显微镜等先进显微镜等。

Antony will work on areas that combine our expertise in nanomanufacturing and photonics. Specifically he will work towards a photonic platform that combines with microfluidics and develop the know-how to detect particles and biomolecules within plasmonically enhanced integrated photonic devices. This will involve advanced design and modeling techniques, advanced nanofabrication techniques and setting up experiments as well as analyzing these experiments. This is an exciting new area of research that is high risk and high reward which will work at the intersection of photonics, electronics and microfluidics. Such integrated platforms have been talked about for many years, but the know-how and the manufacturing technology to get them to work has thus far been unavailable. With rapid advances in photonics, as well as know-how in integration of microfluidics with electronics, this presents a new opportunity to integrate microfluidics with on-chip photonics using the significamnt know-how in these areas within the research group. The aim of this project will also be to carry out some early stage research into their potential in healthcare diagnostics, and may involve collaboration with colleagues in biochemistry and/or medicine if all goes according to plan. The use of integrated photonics with integrated microfluidics is a fledging fields and much new expertise and techniques need developing before its potential can be evaluated and this student-led project will prime many of these novel techniques to create the earsly stage know-how and a knowledge base of what works and what does not, and an understanding of how and why things work or do not.This work will fall into several EPSRC priority areas. The primary areas will be Manufacturing the Future and Healthcare Technologies, but this project will also work alongside ICT and Physical Sciences. Given its interdisciplinary nature, it is by its very definition difficult to classify into one primary area, which is a key aspect of novelty of this research project. We envision use of several of these technologies and/or techniques and methods: EHD Printing, Advanced Atomic Force Microscopy, Photonic Chip Design, Advanced Nanolithography, Optical characterization techniques, Microfluidics, Transfer printing, Microscale moulding techniques, Analyte chemistry, Process development as well as data analysis, time domain data collection, in-situ spectroscopy, fibre coupled lasers, advanced microscope such as fluorescence microscopy and electron microscopy etc.